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All Topics (October 22 through December 31)
Tuesday, October 22
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National Academies of Medicine: Potential Research Priorities to Inform Readiness and Response to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1): A WorkshopNASEM is holding an online workshop consisting of two full-day sessions that will explore research priorities to inform readiness and response to the ongoing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) A (H5N1) outbreak in the United States.
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Climate, Development and International Financial Institutions: Perspectives from the Global SouthPrecisely at a time when a rapid mobilization of resources is required to achieve development and climate change goals, the cost of capital has soared, economic growth has remained sluggish, climate impacts have intensified, sovereign debt is dampening investments, and geopolitical tensions are straining an already fraught international financial system. Achieving shared climate and development…
Wednesday, October 23
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Center for Systems Neuroscience Seminar (Prof. Betty Hong, California Institute of Technology)Hosted by Prof. Meg Younger and Prof. Brian DePasquale
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Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from the Informal Sector: Evidence from BangladeshIn the eighth most populated country in the world, millions of Bangladeshis are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The low-lying nation is susceptible to sea level rise and has some of the worst ranked air quality in the world. This is largely due to insufficiently operated coal-burning brick kilns in Bangladesh’s informal economic…
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AIR Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Sung Ju Hwang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Talk Title: Efficient and Long-Context GenAI Models Abstract: Generative AI models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks in recent years. However, their deployment in real-world production-grade AI systems is hindered by significant computational costs. Additionally, these models are constrained by their limited context window size, which restricts their ability to handle more complex tasks…
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Meet the Russell Sage FoundationThe Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) is dedicated to “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” The foundation funds social science research that extends the methods, data, and theories of the social sciences to better document and understand the nation’s most pressing social, political, and economic problems. RSF supports visiting scholars in…
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The Last Breath of Sam Yan Film Screening & DiscussionJoin the Boston University Initiative on Cities, the Center for the Study of Asia, and the Department of Anthropology for a featured screening of The Last Breath of Sam Yan. This documentary captures the efforts of residents and students trying to save the century-old Thai-Chinese Chao Mae Thapthim Shrine from destruction by the development wing of Bangkok's…
Friday, October 25
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BU Campus Climate Lab Spring Funding Information SessionInfo session for students and faculty interested in sustainability research and climate action.
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CISE Seminar: Prashast Srivastava, Columbia UniversityFOX: Coverage-guided Fuzzing as Online Stochastic Control Fuzzing is an effective technique for discovering software vulnerabilities by generating random test inputs and executing them against the target program. However, fuzzing large and complex programs remains challenging due to the difficulty in uncovering deeply hidden vulnerabilities. The challenges stem from the design limitations of the scheduler…
Monday, October 28
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Urban Inequalities WorkshopPresentation by Dr. Jonathan Wynn, UMass Amherst (in person) and Dr Andrew Deener, UC Santa Barbara (via zoom) on “The Urban Way: Divisions”